jabber

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. uncountable
    — 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi, And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
  2. One who or that which jabs.
    — Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.
  3. One who administers a hypodermic injection. informal
    — Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.
  4. A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
    — The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).
动词 v.
  1. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. intransitive
    — 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184, Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
  2. To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble. transitive
    — She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

词形变化

jabbers present,singular,third-person jabbering participle,present jabbered participle,past jabbered past jabbers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
jabberer jabberfest jabberingly jabbery jibber-jabber anti-jabber jobbie jabber jobby jabber projabber pro-jabber
并列词
jabbee

词源

词源 1
From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English jab
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English jabber
From jab + -er.
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